From basic techniques to hands-on experiences in contemporary and multicultural art forms, we strive to
stimulate creative thinking and encourage integration of the arts into every aspect of daily life. All of our
programs are staffed by professional teaching artists.

Enroll in classes by mailing, calling, faxing or emailing the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art with the student information and the course registration number. Class size limited to 16, so don’t delay, enroll today!

Mailing Address:
San Luis Obispo Museum of Art
PO Box 813
San Luis Obispo, CA 93406

Telephone: 543–8562 ext. 1#
FAX: 543–4518
Email: edu@sloartcenter.org

Please Note: There is no registration confirmation however you will be notified if the class is full. A 10% service charge will be assessed on all refunds. All classroom supplies are provided. Visa and MasterCard accepted. Scholarships are available. $5 sibling discount for a family member in the same class or session.
The Museum's Youth Education program is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and by Central Coast Funds for Children and Mid-State Bank Foundation.


ARTrageous Summer Camps for Kids (9am - noon)
To enroll, download this form and mail or fax it to the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art.
Each session costs $95 for members, $115 for non-members. All materials are provided. $5 sibling discount for more that one family member enrolled during the same session. Join the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art for $45 and the whole family saves on classes and events for one year. Class size is limited and not guaranteed until payment is received. Scholarships are available.
Monday, July 12- Friday, July 16
Session 3

5 to 6 year olds

What's Around You?
teaching artist Susan Connors
Make drawings of motion using dashes, squiggles, zigzags along with thick, short or erased lines. Be inspired by what you see and feel around you.

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Creative Games
teaching artist Lori Wolf
Take your lines for a walk, let your shapes fall where they may, watch your sculptures grow and see your colors flow. Explore creative games and new experiences in art.

Reg. #: July 3-A

7 to 8 year olds

From Here to There
teaching artist Brian Williams
Begin with a series of related thumbnail sketches to create slow changes. Turn your ideas into a fully realized drawing or mixed
media statement.

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Capture What You See
teaching artist Susan Connors
It’s all about using lines. Create paintings of motion using dashes, squiggles, zigzags along with thick, short or etched lines. Be inspired by what you see and feel.

Reg. #: July 3-B

9 to 12 year olds

Play the Dada Games
teaching artist Lori Wolf
Use traditional and non-traditional media to explore a world never seen. Let the textures, shapes, line and colors of materials guide your 2-D and 3-D creativity.

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From Here to There
teaching artist Brian Williams
Begin with a series of related thumbnail sketches to create slow changes. Turn your ideas into a fully realized drawing, painting or mixed media statement.

Reg. #: July 3-C
Monday, July 19- Friday, July 23
Session 4

5 to 6 year olds

Cloth and Sculpture Art
eaching artist Lori Wolf
Learn about the work of Alison Saar and create your original, inspired found art sculpture. Use cloth, threads, yarns in layers. Be inspired by the work of Faith Ringold.

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Paint and Collage
teaching artist Susan Connors
Learn about the bright layered work of Jacob Lawrence and Romare Beardon. Combine paint, pastels, pencils to make collages that tell us your own story.

Reg. #: July 4-A

7 to 8 year olds

Family Life in Art
teaching artist Susan Connors
Create mixed media collages telling a story about your family. Learn about the bright layered work of Jacob Lawrence and Romare Beardon.

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African-American Rhythms
teaching artist Brian Williams
Emphasize rhythm of sounds in art. Create drawings and paintings with layers of lines, shapes, colors that echo the beat of the blues and jazz.

Reg. #: July 4-B

9 to 12 year olds

 African-American Rhythms
teaching artist Brian Williams
Emphasize rhythm of sounds in art. Create drawings and paintings with layers of lines,
shapes, colors that echo the beat of the blues and jazz.

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Afro-American Inspired Creations
teaching artist Lori Wolf
Work with found objects and fiber art materials. Find inspiration in the work of Alison Saar and Faith Ringold.

Reg. #: July 4-C
Monday, August 2- Friday, August 6
Session 5

5 to 6 year olds

Putting Nature in Art
teaching artist Susan Connors
Be inspired by nature! Use natural forms of leaves, twigs, shells, moss and feathers to make your own sculptures. Put contrast, balance and textures together for this fun art form!

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Drawing is Basic
teaching artist Madeline Simonaro
Plan your drawings from line through shapes, textures and space. Combine these elements with colors for original, personal pictures. Drawing is fun!

Reg. #: Aug 5-A

7 to 8 year olds

Collage and Assemblage
teaching artist Julie Steyer
Explore the range of 2-D and 3-D collage. Create recycled art assemblage using the elements and principles of art. It’s colors, texture, and balanced shapes and lines that combine for your own piece of art.

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Putting Nature in Art
teaching artist Susan Connors
Be inspired by nature! Use natural forms of leaves, twigs, shells, moss and feathers to make original sculptures. Use contrast, balance and textures to create your art!

Reg. #: Aug 5-B

9 to 12 year olds

New Vision of Color
teaching artist Madeline Simonaro Emphasize the dynamics of color in art. Mix a palette of many values, tones and tints. Change patterns and shapes into designs inspired by what you see around you.

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Collage and Assemblage
teaching artist Julie Steyer
Explore the wide range of 2-D and 3-D collage. Create recycled art assemblage using the elements and principles of art. It’s colors, texture, and balanced shapes and lines that combine for a unique piece of art!

Reg. #: Aug 5-C
Monday, August 9- Friday, August 13
Session 6

5 to 6 year olds

Be a Sculptor!
teaching artist Brian Williams
Be a 3-D artist and make some sculpture. Found art materials will be used to form the lines and shapes of your creativity. Big or small, short or tall—it’s all artistic fun!

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Where the Wild Things Live
teaching artist Madeline Simonaro
Use drawing and painting to create animal forms. Let the background tell us where they live! Be an artist, work large!

Reg. #: Aug 6-A

7 to 8 year olds

Look, See, Create
teaching artist Jamie Bruzenak
Emphasize observation when planning your drawings. Work with pencil, colored pencil, markers and ink to express contour lines with originality and creativity.

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Watercolor Basics
teaching artist Brian Williams
Explore watercolor techniques to use in realistic and abstract painting. Create colorful artworks with this wet and transparent medium based on your own observation and imagination.

Reg. #: Aug 6-B		 9 to 12 year olds

Reworkign the Drawing Process
teaching artist Madeline Simonaro
Experience the challenge of redrawing with ink, charcoal, black and white tempera. Erase, draw back into, and cut up to make your reassembled art statement.

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Look, See, Create
teaching artist Jamie Bruzenak
Create a sculptural form to use for
observation and planning your paintings. Emphasis will be on originality and creative expression. Explore large format painting with acrylics.

Reg. #: Aug 6-C

ARTrageous Summer Camps for Teens (1 - 4pm)
To enroll, download this form and mail or fax it to the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art.
Each session costs $95 for members, $115 for non-members. All materials are provided. $5 sibling discount for more that one family member enrolled during the same session. Join the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art for $45 and the whole family saves on classes and events for one year. Class size is limited and not guaranteed until payment is received. Scholarships are available. To enroll in Children's Camps, download this form and mail or fax it to the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art.

SESSION 3
JULY 12 - 16

WATERCOLOR IN DEPTH
with teaching artist Marianne Nucci
Explore a wide variety of watercolor techniques. Broaden and deepen your ability to capture the expression of people, places and things using this delightful wet medium. Marianne Nucci received her MFA from Otis Art Institute and is a lifetime artist working in many mediums. She has taught for 27 years in the Cuesta College art department.

Reg. #: TEEN-3

Session 4
JULY 19 - 23

OBSERVATIONAL DRAWING
with teaching artist Nixson Borah
Emphasize your capacity to create expressive and accurate drawings. Focus will be on learning contour and perspective drawing using the figure and environment as subject matter. Both black, white and color art materials will be used. Nixson Borah, professor emeritus from Fullerton College in Orange
County, has exhibited in numerous galleries and museums and is included in private collections on both coasts. His wide range or expertise includes drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and photography.

Reg. #: TEEN-4

Session 5
AUGUST 2 - 6

PAINTING EXPLORATION
with teaching artist Deborah Veldkamp
Find your unique talent for expressing ideas in painting. Explore a broad use of acrylic paints on canvas and paper. One session will focus on composition with a human figure. Your individual creativity
is encouraged in this class. Deborah Veldkamp, a landscape, portrait and figure painter, began her
studies with classical painter Peter Blos in the San Francisco area. She continued her studies at the Art
Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, and at Long Beach State University. She has exhibited widely on the West Coast and Europe.

Reg. #: TEEN-5

Session 6
AUGUST 9 - 13

ART OF THE BOX
with teaching artist Julie Steyer
Explore the symbols of the box. Identify themes and ideas included in an inside/outside box in the style of Joseph Cornell. Both 2-D and 3-D materials will be used to create visual poetry from the commonplace. Julie Steyer, a mixed media artist exploring colored pencil, watercolor, collage and acrylic, majored in art at UC Santa Cruz. Julie has taught youth and adults for 20 years and is
currently exploring mixed media collage and assemblage.

Reg. #: TEEN-6

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Due to school district budget cuts there will be no summer art camps in Paso Robles in 2010

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AFTER SCHOOL ART CLASSES at Monarch Grove Elementary. For 5 to 12 year olds. All materials are provided. Class size is limited and not guaranteed until payment is received. Scholarships are available. Download application form.

Watch for After School Class schedule starting September 2010

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AFTER SCHOOL ART CLASSES will held at Ocean View Elementary School. All materials are provided. Class size is limited and not guaranteed until payment is received. Scholarships are available. Download Winter 2010 schedule and application form.

Watch for After School Class schedule starting September 2010

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AFTER SCHOOL ART CLASSES at San Gabriel Elementary School. Tuesdays, 3 to 4:30 pm. $44 enrollment fee per month. All materials provided. Scholarships available.
Visa and MasterCard accepted.

No classes scheduled at this time.

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SUMMER ART CAMPS
Three summer Art Camp sessions for children 6-9 years old and 10-14 years old are offered at the Old Grammar School, 9 to noon Monday through Thursday. To enroll, download this form and mail or fax it to the San Luis Obispo Art Center.

Session 1
June 14 - 17

6 to 9 year olds
Course CAM–1A
Drawing & Painting With Nature
teaching artist Stephanie Arehart
Make your own sketchbook for saving your ideas. Feel and observe natural and manmade objects, drawing the textures you see and feel. Use your drawn textures for abstract painting.

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All About Texture!
teaching artist Suzette Morrow
Create your personal sketchbook for your creative ideas and observations. Explore relief in nature through implied texture rubbings, real texture collage and handmade clay tiles.

10 to 14 year olds
Course CAM–1B
All About Texture!
teaching artist Suzette Morrow
Create your personal sketchbook for your creative ideas and observations. Explore relief in nature through implied texture
rubbings, real texture collage and
handmade clay tiles.

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Drawing & Painting With Nature
teaching artist Stephanie Arehart
Save your ideas in your sketchbook. Feel and observe natural and manmade objects, drawing the textures you see and feel. Use your drawn textures for abstract painting.

Session 2
June 21 - 24

6 to 9 year olds
Course CAM–2A
Art in Motion
teaching artist Suzette Morrow
Discover the 3-D world of mobiles. Use natural and drawn images in your kinetic sculptures. Create balance and movement in your original artwork.

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Print, Print, Printmaking!
teaching artist Stephanie Arehart
Experience various ways to create prints— rubbings, collagraphs, intaglio and imprints with actual objects. Printmaking is fun 2-D art making!

10 to 14 year olds
Course CAM–2B
Print, Print, Printmaking!
teaching artist Stephanie Arehart
Experience various ways to create prints - rubbings, collagraphs, intaglio and imprints with actual objects. Printmaking is fun 2-D art making!

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Stable and Mobile Sculptures
teaching artist Suzette Morrow
Use natural and drawn images in your stabile and kinetic sculptures. Create balance and movement as you work on all sides of your original artwork.

Session 3
June 28 - July 1

6 to 9 year olds
Course CAM–3A
What's Underwater?
teaching artist Stephanie Arehart
Work on an artistic theme. Create drawings, paintings, prints to incorporate in our large underwater mural. Imaginative artists at work on our underwater environment!

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Exploring the Ocean Depths
teaching artist Suzette Morrow
Create divers, mermaids and swimmers to join the fish and plants of the sea. Combine drawings and painting with collage to make the underwater scene come alive!

10 to 14 year olds
Course CAM–3B
Exploring the Ocean Depths
teaching artist Suzette Morrow
Create divers, mermaids and swimmers to join the fish and plants of the sea. Combine drawings and painting with collage to make the underwater scene come alive! Make a splash with your artwork.

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What's Underwater?
teaching artist Stephanie Arehart
Work on an artistic theme. Create drawings, paintings, prints to incorporate in our large underwater mural. Imaginative artists at work on our underwater environment!

 

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Unless otherwise stated, all classes are taught in the Museum’s classroom at 1010 Broad Street, on the west end of the Mission Plaza, San Luis Obispo. To enroll: Call 805-543-8562 ext. 14 or fax 805-543-4518 or e-mail office@sloartcenter.org. Full payment is required at time of enrollment. Visa and Master Card are accepted. Mail check payable to Museum of Art, PO Box 813, San Luis Obispo, CA 93406.

Refund Policy: The enrollment fee will be refunded or transferred to another workshop if requested at least five days before class starts. A 10% service fee will be charged. No refunds are possible after deadline has passed. If class is cancelled, the entire enrollment fee will be refunded.

Drop-In Watercolor Classes
with Chris Berdoll
every Saturday in July and August, 2010, 9 –11 am

$12 members, $15 nonmembers
(includes supplies)

All levels of painters will enjoy Chris Berdoll’s logical approach. He is an expert guide in an environment that is efficient, rewarding and liberating. Like the American masters who influenced him. He loves to give his students the opportunity to learn what watercolor can do.

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Reductive Woodblock Printmaking
with Nick Spohrer
July 17 thru 19, 2010, 9–4 daily

$200 members, $225 nonmembers

Intermediate to experienced printmakers will investigate reductive woodblock printing techniques. Class will cover hand carving, oil-based inks, modifiers, hand printing, etching press, safe use of tools and cleanup. Nick Spohrer is a professor of printmaking and two-dimensional design at Fresno City College. Material list will be provided.

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Variations on a Theme: Creating a Series Through Experimentation
with David Limrite
July 26–28, 2010 9 am–4 pm

$225 members, $250 nonmembers

For intermediate and advanced students. Using mixed media, Mr. Limrite will assist you in creating three works that contain a central theme and allow for an in-depth exploration on the subject of your choice. Mr. Limrite is known for creating works of dramatic depth and cathartic expressionism. You will be asked to conceive of new ways of presenting your work. As the Art Director in the Editorial Department at the Los Angeles Herald Examiner he saw the dramatic impact of tragic pictorial imagery and used this emotional and dramatic knowledge in his own drawings. Mr. Limrite is currently the Director of Education at Brentwood Art Center.

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Language and Essentials of Watercolor
with Robert Reynolds
Tuesday through Thursday,
September 7, 8, 9, 2010, 9–4 pm

$275 members, $300 nonmembers

This three-day workshop is designed especially for the “just getting started” or the “experienced beginner”, who would like to gain a better control and understanding of the medium of transparent watercolor. Exercises in wet-into-wet, graduated and indirect washes, and brush calligraphy will be explored. Also, creating various kinds of texture, resist methods and acquiring a better understanding of liquid masking procedures will be instructed. The three-day indoor class is divided into six lessons, each being an important aspect of the art of utilizing transparent watercolor. Learning these basic watercolor techniques will help the student to progress to advance levels with greater understanding and ease. On Thursday, everyone will create a finished painting. Orientation with Mr. Reynolds on August 11, 5 –7 pm is included.

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Learn to Street Paint!
with Lury Norris
I Madonnari Weekend
September 11 and 12, 2010, 10–4

$150 members, $175 nonmembers

Learn the skills and confidence to do street painting. Working in pairs you will map out your images and learn the techniques to finish your designs.

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Beginning Fused Glass
with Larry Le Brane
Saturdays, August 7, 14, 21, 2010, 1–4 pm

$120, includes $20 glass materials

Join mixed-media glass artist Larry Le Brane for three fun filled Saturdays. Learn fundamental skills to create fused-glass objects and artwork. Students with all skill levels are encouraged to attend. To register, please e-mail larron4@charter.net or call 528-8791.

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Multimedia Figure Drawing
with Bill Buchman
October 29–30, 2010, 9 am–4 pm

$250 members, $275 nonmembers

This 3-day workshop offers rich resources to experienced or beginning artists looking for new and inspiring ways to draw. Working from a live model you will learn both new and traditional drawing techniques through simple, understandable and practical exercises. As you learn how to draw the figure with courage, freshness and freedom a world of new artistic possibilities will open up. Sponsored by Savoir Faire, all art supplies are provided, except your paper.

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Loose Action Oil Painting
with Robert Burridge
November 5–7, 2010, 9 am–4 pm

$315 members, $365 nonmembers

Oil on canvas, with an emphasis on Abstract Expressionism powered by left brain thinking and free wheeling techniques. All learning levels are welcome.

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Life Drawing
Wednesdays, 9 to noon
and 6:30–9:30 pm

$10 members, $12 nonmember

People with all levels of drawing skill are welcome. A model is provided along with tables and some easels.

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In A Dream
July 12, 7 pm

Directed by Jeremiah Zagar, 2008, color, 78 minutes
Over the past four decades, artist Isaiah Zagar has covered more than 50,000 square feet of Philadelphia with stunning mosaic murals. In A Dream is a documentary feature film that chronicles his work and his tumultuous relationship with his wife, Julia. It follows the Zagars as their marriage implodes and a harrowing new chapter in their life unfolds. Winner of the SXSW, Philadelphia, San Francisco Docs, Biograph, Full Frame and Woodstock Film Festivals.

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Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
August 16, 7 pm

Directed by Eric Bricker, 2009, color, 83 minutes
Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, Visual Acoustics celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, whose images brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Mr. Shulman, who passed away last year, captured the work of nearly every modern and progressive architect since the 1930s including Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, John Lautner and Frank Gehry. His images epitomized the singular beauty of Southern California’s modernist movement and brought its iconic structures to the attention of the general public. This unique film is both a testament to the evolution of modern architecture and a joyful portrait of the magnetic, whip-smart gentleman who chronicled it with his unforgettable images. Winner of the Palm Springs, Austin Newport Beach and Lone Star International
Film Festivals.

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Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design
September 20, 7 pm

Directed by Faythe Levine, 2008, color, 65 minutes
Handmade Nation documents the new wave of art, craft and design that is capturing the attention of the nation. It is the feature film debut of director, author, artist & curator Faythe Levine. Ms. Levine traveled to 15 cities and covered more than 19,000 miles to interview artists, crafters, makers, curators and community members. Today's craft world has emerged as a synthesis of historical technique, punk culture, and the DIY ethos, also influenced by traditional handiwork, modern aesthetics, politics, feminism and art. Learn about the tightly knit community that exists through websites, blogs, and online stores that connect to the greater public through independent boutiques, galleries and craft fairs. Interviews were conducted on-location in artist studios, homes, boutiques, offices and craft fairs, giving the public an exclusive and rarely seen look into the lives of these creative individuals.

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Life Drawing Studio
Wednesdays 9 am - noon and 6:30-9:30 pm
Nybak Wing

$10 members, $12 nonmember

People with all levels of drawing skill are welcome. A model is provided along with tables and some easels.
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Life Drawing Studio
Wednesday Nights 6:30 – 9:30, Nybak Wing

Uninstructed figure drawing sessions coordinated by Jamie Giannotti. Life model, long and short poses. Bring your own art supplies. Tables and some easels are available. No reservations.

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Thursday Painters
Artists meet at inspiring locations throughout the county each Thursday, 9:30 a.m. through lunch.
Discussion and critique of art is included. Bring your own supplies and a bag lunch.

Email artmom5@gmail.com for locations and dates.
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Family Art!
Three Saturdays 1–4 pm
July 24, August 14 and August 28

For kids of all ages! Come enjoy an afternoon of creativity. See art, make art, and share art with each other. From sun prints, to collages; painting to clay, you will be provided with the materials to experiment and try new ways to express yourself. If you have family visiting, or kids bored with the same old, same old, bring them to the Museum for an afternoon of family time.

Members $3, nonmembers $5.


Since 1992 Integrated Arts for the Classroom has offered workshops
• Demonstrating how the arts relate to the values of a culture
• Integrating the arts with other subjects in the curriculum through hands-on music, dance, theater and visual arts
• Based on California curriculum content standards and assessment rubrics
Contact bethmott@charter.net or call 805–543–7072 for information.
Dr. Bernice Loughran-Nicholson, Beth Mott and Susane Rotalo, Coordinators


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Bus Trip to the deYoung Museum
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Join us on a fabulous trip to San Francisco to see “Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay: The Birth of Impressionism” at the de Young, the only museum in the world to present two consecutive special exhibitions from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Ticket price includes roundtrip travel on luxury motorcoach, entrance to the Museum and an audio tour headset so you can enjoy the exhibition at your own pace. An informative lecture and reading materials on Impressionism and the Musee d’Orsay will be presented during the ride north. Convenient pick up stops beginning in Morro Bay at 7 am to Paso Robles and returning by 10 pm at the lastest. Deadline to register is August 1, 2010. Visa and MasterCard accepted. $100 Members, $115 Nonmembers.


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